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Rutgers Joe 
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Joined: January 30 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 103 |
 Posted: April 04 2006 at 17:15 |
Really? Gosh...I think it's a classic...
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Suki
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Joined: September 21 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 134 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 17:30 |
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EDITED.. I spoke of the wrong cover. Anyway, the Camel cover is disgusting.. eeh.. The originial one is nice, though.
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kebjourman
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Joined: January 26 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 393 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 18:22 |
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wow i've never seen the uk version of octopus before
its.......... its beautiful |
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Frasse
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Joined: November 22 2004 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 758 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 18:30 |
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Moonmadness was the worst one of those two. I quite like the US Octopus better than the UK, altough I love the art of Roger Dean. |
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Bj-1
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Online Points: 31644 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 18:42 |
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The UK Octopus is fantastic! Equally as good as the Yes covers, IMO. However, the US one features a dead, pickled octopus and looks very dreadful compared to the UK one! The UK Moonmadness is simply beautiful, but the US one was just........weird, though it fits the album title better! Both drastic changes, can't really decide! |
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Moatilliatta
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Joined: December 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3083 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 18:52 |
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I like both Octopus covers. I do agree with the above post that the cover of the US Moonmadness is fitting, but the artwork on the UK version is far better.
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www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph
 
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The Green Tank
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Joined: November 06 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 244 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 18:57 |
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Moonmadness. I haven't even seen that cover. It's gross. The US Octopus cover is great, actually. Not better than the Dean cover, but not worse.
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Zargus
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Joined: May 08 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 3491 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 19:12 |
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The camel one no doubt, i like the bothe of the 2 octopus ones very much dont realy know wich one i like the most.
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Snow Dog
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 19:23 |
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I prefer the Uk covers to both. But the winner is moonmadness. The Uk cover isjust so much better. |
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The Wizard
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Joined: July 18 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 7341 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 19:50 |
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What they did to Country Life by Roxy Music bothers me...one of the most beautiful album covers ever, destroyed! Moonmadness was pretty much crappified in US, Octapus is tolerable at most. |
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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 19:53 |
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I like the American Octopus cover. But that Camel one...phew...that is something. Lucky that i have the original |
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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ElwoodHerring
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Joined: November 12 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 232 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 20:05 |
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It was thanks to the Roger Dean Octopus cover that I discovered Gentle Giant - I was already a Yes fan and thought that anything with a Roger Dean cover must be good (and generally is).
If I had seen the U.S. cover first I probably wouldn't have discovered GG for maybe another 5 years... album cover art heavily influenced my record buying decisions in the 70's! As for the U.S. Moonmadness cover... sheer Lunar Sea!  Edited by ElwoodHerring |
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[IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG">
Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
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ANDREW
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Joined: November 21 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 3064 |
Posted: April 04 2006 at 20:20 |
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Norbert
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Joined: October 20 2005 Location: Hungary Status: Offline Points: 2506 |
Posted: April 05 2006 at 03:18 |
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The US cover of Moonmadness is really horrible, I've never seen it before.
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CVoss
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Joined: July 20 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 40 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 07:46 |
I can only agree; it looks like a circus cover.
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"No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun" |
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crimson thing
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Joined: April 28 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 848 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 08:11 |
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Don't forget either, what happened to Islands.............
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS
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imoeng
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Joined: February 03 2006 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 2450 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 08:15 |
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moonmadness for me... thats sick... although very funny...
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Kord
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Joined: May 23 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 329 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 10:06 |
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Camel |
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 10:30 |
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The US "Moonmadness" cover is simply an abomination
. The one on "Octopus" is not a patch on the original, of course, but at least it's tolerable.
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Abstrakt
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Joined: August 18 2005 Location: Soundgarden Status: Offline Points: 18292 |
Posted: June 07 2006 at 10:33 |
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Moonmadness...
Octopus just looks better!
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